A term I found blood curling was doing the rounds last week – “emotional support water bottle”. If it had been some marketing ploy from a water company wanting to capitalise on the self-care trend I would understand it. Still, on closer inspection, it isn’t any one type of bottle or brand nor does it have…Read More

A term I found blood curling was doing the rounds last week – “emotional support water bottle”. If it had been some marketing ploy from a water company wanting to capitalise on the self-care trend I would understand it, but on closer inspection it isn’t any one type of bottle or brand nor does it have…Read More

You may have “read me” over the past few years bang on and on about how urgently we need to audit and then reduce HumanDebt™ and I feel we’re starting to see the proof of how, if we want to do that, we must all urgently learn from the DevOps movement as it encouragingly is…Read More

We believe that the new and necessary workplace culture change must start with an honest exploration. In yesterday’s article – a Checklist to help the handful of willing organisations get started on integrating, rewarding and valuing the human work so they can lower their HumanDebt and be competitive in this new landscape.  Today’s video finds…Read More

When we announced our “Pay your people for the human work FFS” campaign we did think it was a tall ask but we had no idea what height we were talking about. Over the last few weeks, every conversation seemed to reiterate a hard-to-swallow truth: we’re aeons away from being ready for the message. After…Read More

This week in work news – deluded bosses and their “productivity paranoia” as denounced by Microsoft. The discrepancy in perception is striking indeed. They think we’re slacking, we think we’re overwhelmed and overworked. Beyond the devastating effects, this has on any semblance of ability to feel valued, we know this is happening because of the…Read More

Yesterday we spoke about the crisis of EQ and leadership we are facing and the devastating effect command and control has at every level and we wrapped up by acknowledging that the most likely path towards change is that where middle managers will understand the need to undertake the transformation work and change behaviours and…Read More

The business world is often times divided between “us” and “them”. There’s the “us” versus “them” where “us” is the employees and “them” is the organisation, but then there’s a more insidious and even more damaging type of “us” versus “them” and that’s where the “us” is still the employees but the “them” is “management”/“leadership”/“the bosses”.…Read More